We went to see the Backrooms the past weekend and we don't have alot to say but we will say it anyways lol.
First lets give a synopsis shall we and a little backstory but i wont go into detail because i know too much and can talk about it forever.
This movie is done by A24 and Kane Parsons, who is known as Kane Pixels on YouTube. Who did a bunch of found footage, movies or little shorts about The Backrooms.
Just a little back story on the Backrooms they were invented in 2019 on a thread on an image board website called 4chan , and the Backrooms were usually portrayed as like impossibly large , extra dimensional complex of empty rooms, Liminal spaces and empty and eerie vibes. They're in the creepy pasta genre. At this point there are thousands of levels. Each level has a different intensity and has different monsters in it. Some are safe zones, some are slightly safe, and then there are some that are danger zones , and then some that are just run , get out. You know , clip in , which is basically you just fall into these rooms , universes , worlds dimensions , and you never know which one you're gonna end up in , but the most known is level zero , which is that yellow toned office , liminal space that you see in the movie.
Okay, now back to the movie. So this movie had a lot of good points to it , which are they got the look and the eerie feeling down very well. They also got that since of someone is watching you feeling correct as well. The bad thing is, is they focused on this man's back story for about an hour of the entire movie and when he found the back rooms it kind of went into that a little but then it didn't really tell you anything about the place they were in unit the very end. This man goes on a journey after he's getting divorced and finds this room inside of his furniture store in the wall started glowing. So he walked through it, then he started getting curious and kept going back and then he brought other people in and then they found the monster which the monster was incredibly disappointing because I was expecting a certain thing considering we've seen and read all of the back history that I could. Then he stays and leaves this weird message on his therapist's answering machine. So she goes to find him at his furniture store and ends up finding the Backrooms where he taped a door and goes inside, ends up finding him and strange things happen and then she has to run from this monster, which was incredibly disappointing. Then she ends up where the workers are and they tell her a little bit about the space, but they also don't know much and then it just ends. They could have literally done this movie in 30 minutes. They went into none of the other spaces , really , except for a brief five minutes where they went through maybe two other zones , but it was all connected to level zero , which makes no sense but ok. It was basically, here's this guy, he's going through a hard time, he's an alcoholic, he finds the Backrooms and he goes in and goes nuts. Then this person comes looking for him and finds him and he's nuts , then she finds the workers and boom done the backrooms. This should have started. The movie should've started when she found the workers. Honestly, the entire movie could have been down to 30 minutes as an intro to the actual movie. Or if this is going to be a series, I can see it being a start to a franchise. However, It took way too long to get to the point and I literally wasted about an hour of my time. The I could have squished it together in thirty minutes would have been fine.
Aesthetically , 8/10
Eerie vibes 7/10
Cinematography. 7/10
Plot ....5/10 felt unfinished
Horror 2/10 had no horror to it really
Overall 5/10 dissapointing